With the Arm vs Intel CPU war about to heat up big time, here’s everything you need to know about Arm vs x86.
Arm processors are also making their way into the PC market via Windows on Arm and Apple’s custom M1 CPU for Macs.
Arm is the CPU architecture used by all modern smartphones in both the Android and Apple ecosystems. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its handset CPUs, while MIPS processors for phones haven’t been seen for years. I can't imagine having to study all these different manufacturers' sysex protocols.Android is capable of running on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel, and MIPS.
Lastly – I'll put in a word for Chadwick Wood, Patch Base's developer. The Session was my first taste of a decent stereo sampled piano. It's basically a half-rack version of the 90s-era Roland flagship JV-1080 module but with more sounds – it incorporates their "Session" piano card (which used to be an add-on card for JV/XP synths and cost over $200). I only used it once on a gig when I forgot the laptop (!) but other than that it's been in my accessory case for about 15 years! It was fun rediscovering it and playing some of the patches. As I said, it's my "emergency" module I bring to gigs in case my laptop rig goes down.
I can't see myself needing to edit my JV much more if at all. I feel like I should give the dev a month's subscription $$, he emailed me back with some good tips. I had a few hiccups (incomplete transfers of bulk data, and a checksum error or two) but in the end it did work fine.
I will say this – for those that want to start using an iPad or iPhone midi app but want to save a few bucks on a camera connection kit and midi interface, the wifi or bluetooth midi that Apple has in Audio Midi Setup is not hard at all to implement. That's counting all the attempts to use OS9 virtualized, and downloading a few other "solutions" that didn't quite pan out. Essentially I had to edit two parameters of a piano patch - they were set to "1" and I needed to make them "0" – that's it! I probably spent three or four hours in total, maybe more. I got Patch Base working using a wifi-midi connection, and after viewing some of the dev's videos (and many trial-and-error attempts to edit a patch then store it to the synth), I got the job done. Well I'm back to report that all is good. I've only used it once in the last 10 years – when I forgot my laptop backpack before leaving for a gig! TIA for any suggestions. I know there are commercial editor/librarians out there but I just need to edit ONE patch and ONE performance, then pack this unit away! It's my "emergency" synth I keep in my accessory case in case my laptop goes down on a gig. I found a JV/XP editor but it only runs in Windows, and another panel that only edits patches, not performances (which is what I need to do).Īnyway, I've run out of ideas.
Then I checked out some very hip software called Ctrlr, which lets one build virtual "panels" of midi controllers and synth editors. A few minutes of googling told me that this was not possible. My next thought was to run an old OSX (10.4) in virtualization, which would conceivably allow me to run the Classic environment. I installed SheepShaver (OS9 emulator for those that may not be familiar) and I can run this software in my current OSX (10.11), however from what I can see there is no way to connect it to my midi interface – a MOTU Fastlane attached to my MacBook Pro's USB port. I have an old Roland synth module (JV1010) that has editing software that runs on OS9.